How many of us get out-of-breath walking upstairs, running for a bus or walking the dog? There can be many causes of breathlessness, such as illness, injury or simply getting older.

Most people assume breathing is controlled automatically, like our heartbeat, but the truth is that we need to learn how to breathe well.

New research has shown that exercising and strengthening the muscles we use to breathe in – the inspiratory muscles – can help alleviate breathlessness and can also make exercise feel easier.

Leading Health, Fitness and Sports product distributor, Creative Health Products, is pleased to announce the US launch of a brand new product range from POWERbreathe®

Leading Health, Fitness and Sports product distributor, Creative Health Products, is pleased to announce the US launch of a brand new product range from POWERbreathe® - a revolutionary and versatile lung exerciser. Three new products include a model specifically designed for Wellness, along with one for Fitness and one for Sports Performance.

POWERbreathe® has been shown to reduce breathlessness and bring new-found freedom to people who, because of illness or advancing age, are restricted by shortness of breath. Using the laboratory-proven POWERbreathe® training system of 30 BREATHS TWICE A DAY, the strength of your breathing muscles will improve rapidly. An easy-to-use, drug free, hand-held device, POWERbreathe® has a controllable load for progressive exercise and is appropriate for people at all levels of fitness.

BACKED BY YEARS OF RESEARCH

The product range is the result of nearly a decade of research and carries the CE European mark of approval. It uses the basic principles of resistance training. It’s like “dumb-bells for the diaphragm” - just as you might use weights to strengthen your arm muscles, breathing in through POWERbreathe® for a few minutes twice daily, makes your inspiratory muscles work harder - thereby increasing their strength and endurance. Within a few days inspiratory muscles will feel stronger and within four weeks lung function will improve. As a result, any ‘every day’ activities or ‘exercise’ carried out will feel easier, enabling you to get more out of it.

Relieves the symptoms of Asthma

POWERbreathe® is great for asthmatics, or anyone who suffers from respiratory problems. Numerous research trials have already been conducted, examining breathlessness and respiratory muscle fatigue in many groups of people.

·         In randomized, controlled trials, on mild / moderate asthmatics, POWERbreathe® increased inspiratory muscle

strength by a mean of 11% in just 3 weeks (McConnell et al., 1998)

Inspiratory muscle training has also improved inspiratory muscle function in the following conditions:

·         Spinal cord injury (Huldtgren et al., 1980, Gross et al., 1980)

·         Cystic fibrosis (Sawyer et al., 1993)

·         Chronic heart failure (Cahalin et al., 1997, Mancini et al., 1995)

·         Neuromuscular diseases including MS (Foglio et al., 1994), Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Wanke et al., 1994)

·         Heart-lung transplant patients (Ambrosino et al., 1996)

Who can benefit?

·         Anyone who gets out-of-breath easily

·         Asthmatics and those with respiratory disorders

·         Those with medical conditions such as emphysema, bronchitis or cystic fibrosis

·         Patients with spinal cord injury, neuromuscular diseases (MS, stroke), and heart and lung transplant patients

·         Anyone interested in improving their fitness

·         Anyone wanting to relieve breathlessness during exercise

The result of nearly a decade of research, POWERbreathe^® was designed by a team of professional scientists at Birmingham University. Due to its innovative and novel design, POWERbreathe^® has been awarded ‘Millennium Product’ Status by the English Design Council.